Let's Talk About - The Element of Surprise

Let's Talk About...
THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE

I am a believer that leaving little notes for a loved one to find is a great boost for relationships.

I first learned this concept from my Aunt Sue because she taught me to discreetly write "present for Sarah" onto my mom's shopping list. (You can picture a mother's smile when she grabs the list off of the counter and runs to the store to pick up a few things... milk, eggs, bread, burgers, buns, present for Sarah.) That's when she thinks to herself "I've got a pretty neat daughter."

When dating my high school sweetheart, I used to sneak into his laundry bag and tuck notes into his socks or into the flap of his whitie-tightie underwear to let him know that I was thinking of him while he was away at college. Of course, he wouldn't find these notes for a few days so I'm sure it was a nice surprise.

Once, I tried to make my own fortune cookies, but I had to tell my boyfriend that they were, indeed, fortune cookies. (They had, sadly, turned out NOTHING like the picture in the magazine and looked NOTHING like fortune cookies as we know them.)

In my current relationship, I recently taped a note to the back side of the remote control as a surprise for my boyfriend to find. It simply said "You turn me on."

We've left little notes for each other taped around the apartment before. (i.e. bathroom mirror, fridge door, etc.) It really is kind of a sweet way to let someone know that you were thinking about them.

The one that I left him that really caught him off guard was the note taped to the bottom of the toilet seat. He admitted "that one, I was NOT expecting." (SEE PHOTO.)

So, I encourage you to sneak a note or a special treat into the bottom of a lunchbox, into a glasses case, as a bookmark in the book that they are reading, scribe a note on the steamed bathroom mirror... tell someone that you love them.

You'll be glad that you did.